Tag: Weightlifting
War in Ukraine: Ukrainian European weightlifting champion dies in the war
Oleksandr Pyeljeschenko took part in the 2016 Olympic Games. He had joined the Ukrainian army in the first days of the Russian invasion. Now he died as a soldier at…
Ukraine War: European weightlifting champion killed in battle
Alexander Pyeljeschenko “War takes the best of us”: Ukrainian European weightlifting champion killed in battle The Ukrainian weightlifter Olexander Pyeljeschenko – here at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de…
Doping, corruption, weak spectacle … Weightlifting plays its Olympic survival in Tokyo
They were 260 in Rio, they will only be 120 weightlifters entered during the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. Far from the young and spectacular sports prized by the IOC,…